Michael Bay's The Island

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2006)

Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly Utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island" - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.
The plot is very original though I heard somewhere that this was copied from another movie whose title I forgot that has exactly the same storyline. But, copied or not, it don't matter because what matters the most is how they delivered it to us audiences. And, fortunately, this flick did one hell of a job. Great visuals, the sound is well-timed and man, the car chase scenes is off the hook. Especially, when Lincoln and Jordan rides the ubercool Jetbike of some sort all over the city. One scene that was obviously given the most effort is the car chase scene between a truck that carries railroad wheels with Lincoln and Jordan in it and Laurent's mercenaries. And when Lincoln starts dropping all those tonfuls of railroad wheels, my oh my, PURE DESTRUCTION DERBY I tell you. Cars defies gravity and goes flying everywhere. Especially the armored truck that did a perfect flip when a thousand tonne railroad wheel hit the bumper. God. Breath-taking. This is definitely one of Michael Bay's best films of all time. Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson gives off yet another good performance. You can't go wrong with Ewan's Scottish accent, its pretty catchy. And to all the others, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Djimon Hounsou and Michael Clarke Duncan are great too.
I should've given this film a perfect 10 but they killed off Steve Buscemi so that's a -2. LOL.